What Happened To Lyric McHenry?

In August 2018, McHenry, a promising woman from a prominent family, was FOUND DEAD OF AN OVERDOSE, secretly 20 weeks pregnant. An arrest has been made, but her loved ones are STILL SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS.

- Jessica Testa

Lyric McHenry celebrated her twenty-sixth birthday last year as any other exceedingly social Leo from Los Angeles would: by stretching one day of celebration into one exuberant week.

She began the affair in New York City, spending two days and nights meeting up with old friends and colleagues, crashing at her younger sister Maya’s apartment on the Upper East Side. Sitting on Maya’s bed, the sisters—three years apart—talked until they couldn’t keep their eyes open.

On McHenry’s actual birthday, August 6, about a dozen friends threw her a dinner party at Lucien, a casually glamorous bistro in the East Village. Her L.A. crew coalesced with her New York crew, bookended by her classmates from Stanford, where she’d earned a degree in comparative studies in race and ethnicity in 2014.

One of those classmates, Rob Franklin, sat across the table from McHenry. She looked well, he thought—like the same dazzling woman he’d shared an apartment with in Chinatown after graduation. Franklin thought about how almost every Friday night, when he came home from his robotic corporate job, McHenry would turn up the music in their living room, drawing him in with her long, graceful arms to dance out his frustration. But that was a few years ago. McHenry had since moved back home to L.A. to try to make it as a filmmaker. She was the daughter of a well-known Hollywood director and producer, Doug McHenry, but she was still hustling, working on screenplays and pilots, juggling five projects at once, living in a permanent state of “taking meetings.”